Toolbox: Sources and download
Resources referenced in the It's Legendary! article
Articles
Patti S. Borda, "Myth buster’ uncovers family's real Civil War story," Frederick News Post, April 2013.
Connie Lenzen, "Heritage Books and Family Lore: A Jackson Test in Missouri and Idaho," NGS Quarterly, March 1998
Kimberly Powell, Family Legends - Fiction or Fact?, About.com Genealogy web site
Daniel Ruby and Walter Ruby, Spektor-Rabinowitz blog postings, Ruby Family History Project on Family History Machine web site <>
Walter Ruby, “A Few Things Are Illuminated: A Wild and Crazy Roots Trip to the Old Country,” archived at Worldpress.org from an original publication in Long Island Jewish Week, Jan. 22, 2008
Snopes.com, “To Hatch a Thief,” Snopes.com
Lindsay Swadling, “Family Legends - can they be trusted?,” archived on RootsWeb from an original publication in Descent, December 1984
Rabbi Meir Wunder, "The Reliability of Genealogical Research in Modern Rabbinic Literature,” republished at Rav-SIG Online Journal from an original publication in Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Winter 1995.
Books
Board for Certification of Genealogists, The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual (Ancestry Inc., 2000)
Robert Todd Carroll, Becoming a Critical Thinker (Prentice Hall, 2000)
Robert Todd Carroll, Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed (James Randi Educational Foundation, 2011)
Thomas W. Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof (National Genealogical Society. 2013)
Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to
Cyberspace (Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007)
Milton Rubicam, Pitfalls in Genealogical Research (Ancestry Inc., 1987)
Ephraim Shimoff, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor—Life and Letters, (Sura Institute, 1959)
Organizations
Rabbi Isaac Elchanon Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, The Story of RIETS video
Board for Certification of Genealogists, The Genealogical Proof Standard
National Genealogical Society, Genealogical Standards and Guidelines
Download
Download a PDF of the Family Tree published article
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